Books are the training weights of the mind.
EPICTETUSIt is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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